WASHINGTON TIMES Friday, March 26, 2010
REVIEWED BY MARTIN RUBIN
Helen Fry, Freuds’ War. The History Press/Trafalgar Square. 223pp. $29.95 Illustrated.
By Martin Rubin
It’s not often that a reviewer gets to point out just how the apostrophe is placed in the book’s title, but for those of us who love punctuation in its proper place, there is no denying that there is a special pleasure in doing so. At first glance, because of Professor Doctor Sigmund Freud’s special fame, it might be natural to assume that it is his war which is under discussion in these pages. But he was lucky enough to be born in 1856 and so be spared the duty to fight for his beloved native Austro-Hungarian Empire, although patriot that he was, he would doubtless have done so. . . . [A]ll three of his sons served in the Austrian military and it is they, along with some Freud grandchildren, whose varied service in both the 20th century’s world wars is the subject of “Freuds’ War.” . . .
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